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Three critically acclaimed recordings are joined together in this dazzling Agatha Christie Triple Bill, read by award-winning narrators Alison Larkin and James Warwick, star of the Partners in Crime TV series on Masterpiece Theater.

Miss Marple encounters a compelling murder mystery in the sleepy little village of St. Mary Mead, where under the seemingly peaceful exterior of an English country village lurks intrigue, guilt, deception and death. Colonel Protheroe, local magistrate and overbearing land-owner is the most detested man in the village. Everyone—even in the vicar—wishes he were dead. And very soon he is—shot in the head in the vicar's own study. Faced with a surfeit of suspects, only the inscrutable Miss Marple can unravel the tangled web of clues that will lead to the unmasking of the killer.

Two best-selling Agatha Christie novels in one great audiobook: What is The Secret of Chimneys? A young drifter finds out when a favor for a friend pulls him into the heart of a deadly conspiracy in this captivating classic from Agatha Christie. Plus: A Murder is Announced in a small-town newspaper advertisement - and Miss Marple must unravel the fiendish puzzle when a crime does indeed occur.

The Man in the Brown Suit is Agatha Christie at her best, as a young woman makes a dangerous decision to investigate a shocking “accidental” death she witnesses at a London tube station. In Agatha Christie’s classic crime adventure novel, They Came to Baghdad, a bright young adventure seeker in the Middle East finds more excitement than she bargained for when a wounded spy expires in her hotel room.

This collection of 25 Hercule Poirot adventures is compiled from short stories written by Agatha Christie for The Sketch magazine in 1923 from March to December. In these stories, including "The Disappearance of Mr. Davenheim", "The Veiled Lady", and "The Adventure of the Egyptian Tomb", the eccentric private detective slowly and surely solves mysteries involving jealousy, revenge, and greed. These stories were well-received at the time and cemented Christie's reputation as the worthy successor to Arthur Conan Doyle.

June Whitfield stars as Miss Marple in seven full-cast BBC Radio 4 dramatisations. The stories included are: 'The Moving Finger', 'They Do It with Mirrors', 'Nemesis', 'Sleeping Murder', 'Tape-Measure Murder', 'The Case of the Perfect Maid' and 'Sanctuary'.

Agatha Christie's first two Poirot novels, narrated with a general-American accent. The Mysterious Affair at Styles: Someone has poisoned wealthy Emily Inglethorp. But who? And how? Everyone suspects Emily's young husband, Alfred...and Alfred seems to be actually trying to get arrested and charged.... The Murder on the Links: Poirot comes to France in response to a desperate plea for help to find his client already murdered - stabbed in the back and lying in an open grave. Brusque, arrogant Inspector Giraud thinks he knows who did it.

The tranquility of a luxury cruise along the Nile was shattered by the discovery that Linnet Ridgeway had been shot through the head. She was young, stylish, and beautiful. A girl who had everything...until she lost her life. Hercule Poirot recalled an earlier outburst by a fellow passenger: “I’d like to put my dear little pistol against her head and just press the trigger.” Yet under the searing heat of the Egyptian sun, nothing is ever quite what it seems.

From mystery and crime to romance and tragedy, in this collection you will discover award-winning writing that effortlessly spans genre and style. Witness the excess and luxury of 1920s America in The Great Gatsby, experience profound meditations on death in The Bridge of San Luis Rey, as well as Poirot's very first murder case in The Mysterious Affair at Styles.

Inglaterra, 1914. El mundo está en guerra. El capitán Hastings, herido y traumatizado, acepta la invitación de pasar su convalecencia en Styles Court, la casa familiar de un viejo amigo. La antigua mansión es para él el refugio perfecto... O, al menos, lo parece. En medio del sofocante calor del verano surgen los problemas, y las tensiones y rencillas entre los miembros de la familia se resuelven de la peor de las maneras. Emily Inglethorp, la adinerada matriarca, es brutalmente asesinada en plena noche, y ninguno de los habitantes de Styles está libre de sospecha.

Is it a gesture of goodwill or a sinister trap that lures Rupert St. Vincent and his family to a magnificent estate? How desperate is Joyce Lambert, a destitute young widow whose only recourse is to marry a man she despises? What unexpected circumstance stirs old loyalties in Theodora Darrell, an unfaithful wife about to run away with her lover?

In this collection of short stories, the answers are as unexpected as they are satisfying. The Queen of Mystery takes bizarre romantic entanglements, supernatural visitations, and classic murder to inventive new heights.

Every morning at the same hour on the golf course, Jack Hartington hears mysterious cries for help coming from a cottage. He speaks to the resident and learns that she has unsettling dreams of a woman with a blue Chinese vase. Believing that the cries for help are from the late Mrs. Turner, the former resident of the cottage, Jack hires a psychic investigator to spend a night in the house, a night which proves to have startling results.

The two greatest detectives of the twentieth century come together in this incredible collection. This audiobook includes unabridged recordings of Agatha Christie's first 6 titles featuring Hercule Poirot novels, as well as the complete collection of Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes novels and stories, all read by the award-winning David Rintoul and Jonathan Keeble.

In London after the Great War, Tommy Beresford and Tuppence Cowley are out of work and low on funds. The old friends quickly form the Young Adventurers, Ltd. Seeking to hire themselves out to “do anything, go anywhere,” the duo agree to a lucrative job: locate a survivor of the Lusitania sinking who’s disappeared with a compromising secret.

Detective Hercule Poirot is urged out of retirement to solve the murder of Roger Ackroyd, a wealthy widower found stabbed in his study. In the deceptively quiet village of King’s Abbot, potential motives abound - involving blackmail, revenge, legacies, and more - but they are hard to recognize amid so many layers of secrecy and misdirection...or they would be, for anyone but Poirot. Who’s hiding what, and which was the secret that ultimately provoked the crime? You can’t possibly imagine.

La señora Pengelley, una mujer angustiada, acude a Hércules Poirot convencida de que su propio marido la está envenenando. Solo se siente enferma cuando él prepara las comidas y una botella de veneno aparece misteriosamente vacía. Poirot y Hastings viajan hasta el remoto pueblo de Polgarwith, pero llegan demasiado tarde: la señora Pengelley ha muerto. La sospecha recae sobre el marido, pero en esta comunidad todos parecen ocultar algo.

Durante una escapada al pintoresco lago Windermere, el famoso detective Hércules Poirot y su inseparable amigo Hastings conocen a Mary Durrant, una joven que transporta valiosas miniaturas de Napoleón para venderlas a un coleccionista estadounidense. Pero el trayecto se convierte en pesadilla cuando las antigüedades desaparecen sin dejar rastro. ¿Quién es el ladrón? ¿Cómo pudo cometer el robo en un autobús lleno de testigos? Poirot, con su aguda intuición y su inigualable lógica, deberá desenmascarar al culpable antes de que el viaje termine.

Cuando el señor Wu Ling, un hombre de negocios chino que custodia el único mapa de una legendaria mina de plata, aparece muerto en Londres antes de cerrar un trato millonario, el caso queda en manos del incomparable Hércules Poirot. Acompaña a Poirot y Hastings en una investigación donde cada sonido te transporta: el bullicio de Chinatown, el rumor del río Támesis, el crujir de antiguos pergaminos y el suspense de cada revelación.

Durante una elegante velada en la alta sociedad londinense, las valiosas joyas del excéntrico coleccionista Marcus Hardman desaparecen de su caja fuerte, desatando el escándalo entre sus selectos invitados. Desesperado por evitar el escarnio público, Hardman recurre al legendario Hércules Poirot, quien deberá desenredar una trama donde nada es lo que parece y cada pista puede ser un engaño. ¿Quién es el verdadero culpable? ¿El joven Parker, la enigmática condesa rusa Vera Rossakoff o quizá alguien aún más inesperado?

Durante una elegante fiesta en la mansión de Lord Mayfield, los planos ultrasecretos de un revolucionario avión militar desaparecen sin dejar rastro. Entre los invitados, una seductora espía americana, un mariscal de alto rango, políticos y sirvientes, todos bajo sospecha. El escándalo amenaza con desatar una crisis nacional… y solo Hércules Poirot, el legendario detective, puede desvelar la verdad detrás de un crimen que desafía toda lógica.